Printing-plate.



J. S.'DUNGAN.

l PBINTINGPL'ATB. APPLICATION FILED APB. 22, 1908.

Patented oon-27,1908.

- ments in Printing-Plates,

UNITED s'rnrns 'JOSEPH S. DUNCAN, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ABDRESHSOGRAFH COMPANY, OF

.CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

'PATENT originen.

PRINTING-FLATE.'

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. DUNCAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of'Illinois, have invented new and useful Im roveof which the 'ollowing is a specification.

Iy present invention relates to that class .of printing devices which are usually arranged in accordance with a card index system and are fed through a printing machine and packed one at a time, after the `printing o eration, in the tray or drawer inwhich t ey are stored. These printing devices usually bear an address forni-but they may be provided with any other form desired.

My Letters Patent N o. 764,660 dated July 12, 1904 and No. 803,677 dated Nov. 7, 1905 cover machines for handling printing devices in this manner. It sometimes happens, through carelessness or otherwise, that 4the printing device is discharged from the printe ing machine into the tray or drawer im ropand nesting of blank from which the printing erly so that, instead of standing uprig it on one edge, it will fall down into a position which will interfere with the proper packing the other printing devices.

The ob'ect of this invention is to provide a printing evice with means for engaging the tray or drawer so that it will be sustained in proper positionin the drawer for packing.

In the accompanying drawings'Figure 1 shows a portion of an index rinting device embodying the invention.V Iiig. 2 shows an entire index rinting device embodying the invention. ig 3 is an end view of the printiiigdevice shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 shows another index rinting device embodying the invention. iig. 5 is an end view oi the printing device shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 shows a portion of a plain printing device embodying the invention. Fig. 7 shows a portion oi' the device shown in Figtfi is made.

Th.- printing device preferably consists of a plate 8 stamped from a sin le sheet of metal with spacing flanges 9 a 'ong its side edges on the back. of the plate, as shown in Figs. 13, or'on the face of the plate, as

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 22, 1908.

Patented Oct. 27, 1908. serial No. 428,504.

[shown inFigs. 4 and 5. The printing characters are .preierabl 1 One endet the'plate may be provided With a recess 10, as shown in Fig. 6, or with a recess 11 and an index tab "12, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4'.

The blank 13 (F ig. 7 from which the Aplate" is made is cut to form rejections 14, ably in the form of hoo s as shown, when the side edges of the plate are bent over to form the spacing anges 9 these projections are bent outward to extend beyondthe side edges of the plate. lThe projections are preferably located above the middle of the plate and they are constructed and arranged in a I suitable m aimer to engage guides at the sides of the tray or drawer in which the piates vare packed and storedv so that by reason of such engagement the plates will always be sustained in proper position forpacking or nesty ing one u on or against the other. l By thus l forming t e projections out of the biank for the plate and avoid waste of material, and no increase in thesize of the blank is required. l Vihen the printing devices are discharged l from the printin machine one at a time an in the tray or drawer which' is suitably arranged to receive them, and the projections will engage guides or otherwise suitably arranged te plates from vfaliing i'iatwise in drawer and to sustainhem in tion for aching ornesting snug y.

claim and desire to secure by Let-' within the margin thereof I What ters Patent is:

stampediin. relief on the a plate and run in ines lengthwise thereoilf (preferthey will drop', one in front of the other,

in or on the tray or drawer prevent the' proper posij `1f A printing device consisting'zof a subf stantially rectangular metal plate having rinting characters thereonand oppositely isposed projections q`stam ed outlet the i blank for the device, wit Y thereof, and bent outward to proj eet beyond opposite edges of the plate. g 2. Agprinting device consisting ci fa metal plate having printing characters thereon,

spacing flan es formed bybending over the in. 'the margin' side, edges oi the plate, and. heck projections stamped out ofthe blank for the plate, within i outward to project beyond the side edges of A the margin thereof, and bent outward. the plate and extending substantially paral- 3. A rinting device consisting of a, metal lei with said side edges. v late o substantially reotangniarV form and JOSEPH S. DUNCAN. 5 aving printing characters thereon, and hook Witnesses:

rejections stamped out of the blank for the WM. 0. BELT, evice, within the margin thereof, and bent M.l A. KIDDIE. 

